Dr. Richter said he had "no way of knowing the proportion" of secret to unclassified data in Dr. Lee's downloads since "I did not have access" to the downloaded data.
On Monday, The Albuquerque Journal reported the low level of security for the downloaded data.
Recall that, at the time, most people downloaded data at dial-up speeds.
JSTOR, for its part, says all the milk was returned — Swartz gave back the downloaded data — and considered its dealings with Swartz complete.
Asked why the security of the downloaded data was changed, a senior official in the Justice Department referred the question to the Energy Department.
Sprint's service is $40 a month if you can limit yourself to 40 megabytes of downloaded data (and how on earth would you know?).
By returning the downloaded data to JSTOR, Swartz seems to have admitted some level of wrongdoing, or at least a desire to avoid more serious criminal prosecution.
Stephen M. Younger, director of nuclear weapons at Los Alamos, told the federal court at a December bail hearing that the downloaded data in the wrong hands could "change the global strategic balance".
"I'm fairly confident that there isn't anybody who's going to be saying it was less than S.R.D.," or secret restricted data, the official said of expert judgments about the downloaded data.
An Italian/Swedish research team, led by Claudia Scorolli at the University of Bologna, downloaded data from hundreds of online fetish discussion groups and spent the next three years analysing their haul.
